- Two recent Airdrie Echo articles on UFO sightings in
and around Airdrie continue to spur on other residents to come forward
with their stories of strange lights in the sky.
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- And although he's investigated thousands of sighting
reports over the years, Canadian UFO researcher Brian Vike says the local
response has been somewhat unusual.
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- "It is really interesting to see what has been coming
in from your area," said Vike, director of British Columbia-based
HBCC UFO Research. "What is really interesting is that other papers
have run articles and I never heard a peep about any sightings coming in,
so to me this shows that people are seeing strange things in certain areas,
such as yours."
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- Here are the most recent reports from the Airdrie area
that Vike has received.
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- Airdrie
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- Date: Sept. 15, 2003 Time: 11:20 p.m.
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- "The witness e-mail is below: I also called the
witness in Airdrie to gather more information on this sighting. My report
after talking to her is below also," Vike said.
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- "A week before the first article came out in the
Airdrie Echo newspaper about sightings, I came home from work about 11:20
p.m. and I let the dogs outside and I was also watching a few northern
lights off my deck," said the witness in her e-mail. "I live
on the east side of Airdrie ... so we have a hill behind my place with
a walkway that goes towards the highway. I looked over to my left toward
the west - and I know what I saw - it was a big circle of lights twirling
around and hovering on the walkway and then it just went down, not up.
I grabbed my dogs and headed into the house. The next week, I read the
article in the paper."
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- Vike said that during his phone conversation with the
witness, more information was gathered. "The witness said it could
not have been children twirling lights as, for one thing, the circle of
lights was very large in size, plus she could not see anyone in the area,"
Vike said. She also compared the size to a 10- or 12-foot round C-Band
satellite dish. She explained that it looked to her as if it was a ring-shaped
object with a lot of white lights running all around the outside of it.
She also said it appeared that there was not just one set of lights, but
layers of them.
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- Airdrie Date: Early July 2000 Time: Late evening
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- According to Vike, "A gentleman called to file a
report. He first told me he lives in the next town north of Airdrie (Crossfield).
Back in the year 2000, he was living in Calgary and they had just purchased
a home north of Airdrie. The fellow works evenings, so one night when he
finished off his shift at work, he asked a good friend if he wanted to
take a drive and have a look at his new home he had purchased. He told
me it was a beautiful evening and they decided to take the trip to look
at the new home. They headed out, both men discussing the distance they
would be travelling from Calgary to the new home. The driver thought they
would be travelling some 40 kilometers, but his friend thought it would
be a little further than that. The driver hit the button on the odometer,
which set it at zero kilometers. This way they would know just how far
they were about to travel one way. The two men arrived safely at their
destination and had a look around and took some time talking. It was starting
to get later into the evening, so they thought it best to get back on the
road heading towards home. The passenger in the vehicle mentioned to the
driver that he had in-laws living in Airdrie and would it be OK if they
swung by to show the driver their home. As they drove along the highway
outside of Airdrie, the driver noticed some very bright lights coming up
from behind them. The lights were very bright, and as the passenger turned
around to look he commented on the brightness and how fast the lights were
approaching them. Both men, thinking this was a vehicle, never gave it
a lot of thought, other than these lights were almost blinding to the driver.
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- "Now here is where the story takes a strange twist.
All of a sudden the fellows came upon a large sign. It read Country Hills
Boulevard, which is the first exit to Calgary. What is puzzling is that
from when the strange lights came up from behind them and to the sign which
read Country Hills Boulevard, there is a possibility that some time had
gone missing. Both men do not recall driving through Airdrie at all. The
driver took a look at the odometer and he noticed they may be missing 20
kilometers. As he mentioned to me, he never gave any of this much thought,
but did find it rather strange. The driver also said he has driven this
stretch of highway many times and nothing like this has ever taken place.
I asked the man if he or his friend had ever had any vivid dreams and he
said no. As far as he knows, nothing out of the ordinary has happened to
him other than this one strange event. The driver did mention that his
friend did lose a little sleep over the experience."
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- For more information, contact Vike at HBCC UFO
Research's toll free at 1-866-262-1989
or by e-mail at: hbccufo@telus.net
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- http://www.airdrieecho.com/
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